Cymede, the Goddess of Winter

The goddess of winter in the Korinthian Pantheon. A cold and unforgiving goddess, she is not to be trifled with and a single mistake with her may be your last. Her worship is done in cold regions in the hope of her making winter easier to live through. The slumbering goddess, she oversees the cycle of winter among the earth before she goes back to sleep till the next cycle of winter. When the earth grows cold during the first days of winter, she is just yawning and waking from her months of hibernation. Often seen as the laziest among the gods, however she has one of the most important tasks as life can not go on without the coming and going of the winter season. The goliaths often worship her as winter is harsh and brutal where they tend to live and need her guidance to see through it. She also created the first elemental, ice elementals, to protect her domain while she slumbers. Followers will leave comfortable clothing, pillows, and blankets for her so she may have a good sleep and not create a harsh winter in the coming year.

Description
She is often seen with a pale blue robe lined with white fur. She wears a six pointed snow flake necklace around her neck. Her snow white hair drapes across her face to hide her malicious smile. Her skin is white, and she wears a crown of antlers. It is said that when she laughs it is nothing more than a chuckle with her icy breath freezing anything in front of her. She trails behind her a blue-white aura that chills the ground beneath her. Her face is often expressionless, with hair that emits a snowy mist.

Worshipers
Sacrifices to the Frostmaiden were common, especially in the North, as people hoped to appease her and thus avoid cripplingly cold winters. She also had many secret temples along the Bladed Mountains that brought terror and dominion to small settlements of people trying to eke out a living.

Her clergy is loosely organized, and the main goals of most followers is to intimidate common folk and make them venerate the Frostmaiden to avoid reprisals from her clergy, or to have them make donations to her church. Some of her powerful clerics accumulate impressive personal wealth in this manner, some of which they sacrificed as offerings to Cymede. Her priests wear ice white robes with blue trim, and were easily identified by the dire warnings they proclaimed of the wrath of Cymede come the winter.